Nice! Glad it isn’t just reddit links this time

Why not find the person in your university? You’re not gonna find anyone here. Your university definitely has one and if not your advisor definitely knows where.

You’ve passed prelims, how have you not had this discussion with them?

I don’t think anyone opens a port directly to the application. One should use a reserve proxy manager such as NPM. Further security such as authentik. And maybe even cloudflare proxy for hiding one’s IP.

Also, what ISP cares about hosting other then frequent IP changes which duckdns solves? Is this for a specific company or country?

Nextcloud did this to me in the exact same situation you described. Setting up a next cloud folder on the OneDrive folder. You can’t have them running at the same time. This was on windows.

I’ve since gotten rid of OneDrive and moved to Linux and never had this issue.

I think with 2fa, qr codes, talking with family, and emergency services it’s not reasonable to not have a phone. Instead of purchasing a device why not just turn it off and put it away when you’re not using it?

Your maps and ipod have already showed you these are just tools. Continue down that route.

BTW, this post is so close to my own recent questions I thought I had posted it, lol. Share your modded ipod over at c/ipod , trying to start a little community

Was just thinking that as well honestly. Wouldn’t the NSA do it if they could